A 164 triangles version of the Stanford Bunny folded from a 4ft x 4ft thin aluminum sheet, following a crease pattern created by the *Origamizer* algorithm of E.Demaine & T.Tachi. Folded by an MIT group in 2011. cs.smith.edu/~jorourke/Ma... #MathSky #MathArt #Origami #Mathematics #Engineering 🧪

Great video analysing M. C. Escher’s “The print gallery”’s maths youtu.be/ldxFjLJ3rVY?... by @3blue1brown.com

This is nice: github.com/tw93/Mole

New Essay: “Being with Suffering: Reflections of a psychotherapeutic counsellor looking at Jesus on the cross” by Elisabeth Öhlböck pupilla.org/essays/2026-...

What's My JND? 0.0018 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Remembering Chiara Lubich on the anniversary of her death (18 years ago): www.theguardian.com/world/2008/m...

Very cool paper showing that each photoreceptor in our eyes gets exposed to global color statistics of full scenes within the first seconds of viewing, thanks to eye movements. doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

Jesus’ Sisters (cf. Mark 6:3)

xkcd.com/710/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz...

"Chi poco possiede è anche meno posseduto. Sia lodata la piccola povertà.” (Friedrich Nietzsche, Così parlo Zarathustra) via Luigino Bruni

Xavier Melloni inicia un proyecto de vida contemplativa cerca de Manresa: “Poblados Contemplativos Cosmoteándricos” www.jesuites.net/es/noticia/x... youtu.be/LNKi4nPu4sw?...

Color assimilation grid illusion by Øyvind Kolås www.patreon.com/posts/color-...

What happens when noise is added to smooth color transitions? @pmorovic.bsky.social and I asked ourselves this question, and we would really appreciate your help with getting to the bottom of it. If you have 2-3 minutes, please, take part in our on-line experiment: questionpro.com/t/AX2QQZ8DG8

"We live in a time of terrible storms, of growing violence, from knife crime to war. The chasm between rich and poor is every wider. The world order is breaking down. We have no idea of what Artificial Intelligence will yield. If we are not nervous, we ought to be." zenit.org/2026/01/07/p...

“…the world is not saved by sharpening swords, nor by judging, oppressing or eliminating our brothers and sisters. Rather, it is saved by tirelessly striving to understand, forgive, liberate and welcome everyone, without calculation and without fear.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

あけましておめでとうございます。 画像は明るさの錯視で、左の白馬と右の黒馬は輝度が同じです。

Stabat Mater.

Happy new year ☺️🤲🏼 (@ 東京 皇居 Tokyo Imperial Palace)

ἵνα πάντες ἓν ὦσιν flic.kr/p/2rP7vJL

Et lux in tenebris lucet (Ioannem 1:5) Wishing you all a blessed and peaceful Christmas.

“A Neural Symbolic Model for Space Physics” - very interesting work on deriving physical laws from data using AI! Nature ML paper: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.07994 Code: github.com/Jie0618/Phys...

Just came across a cool website for visualizing ONNX model architectures like this (which can be exported from PyTorch): netron.app

Adversarial poetry www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

New article: Slavoj #Žižek’s #Christian #Atheism: A #Dialogue with Chiara #Lubich by Peter Morovic and Ján Morovic pupilla.org/preprints/20...

"Una vegada [Papa Francesc] va dir: "No existeix un Déu catòlic. Existeix Déu". Es tracta de buscar Déu on es trobi, no on un es pensa que és. Déu pot arribar a una persona de les maneres més inesperades, poètiques i lliures." @antoniospadaro.bsky.social www.elperiodico.cat/ca/oci-i-cul...

The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cage’s 4’33 on full blast again.

An algorithm that doesn’t rot your brain? via @jackconte.bsky.social youtu.be/EO14wPQw89c?...

Remembering Nov 17th 1989 in Czechslovakia, the beginning of a fundamental change driven by peaceful but determined people in the streets. The soundtrack was “We promised each other love” by Ivan Hoffman #otd #iwasthere #VelvetRevolution youtu.be/FW2TZvdAOiQ

Curved circular creases of annuli. A construction by Erik and Martin Demaine (all rights reserved). Several annuli intertwined. #MathSky #MathArt #Geometry #Origami More examples: erikdemaine.org/curved/)

Counting fish in Japanese: depending on shape (long narrow or flat), size (big ir small), state (cooked, uncooked, sashimi)… and whether it’s at a fish counter or not 🤷🏻‍♂️🙆🏻‍♂️🙅🏻‍♂️ #lifestooshort #ganbattekudasai

Today in Principles of Color Science 🧪 Teaching about color measurement geometry and the effect of gloss & sheen. 45°:0° vs 8°:de vs 8°:di Ideally a measurement is representative of viewing, in which case excluding gloss is good!

Gran Rosalía! "Com a artista hi ha una relació entre la buidor i la divinitat". "Tinc un desig dins meu que sé que aquest món no el pot satisfer". "Potser aquest és l'espai de Déu". youtu.be/4ubv2VR3gZ8?...

"[A]ll are called to serve. No one should impose his or her own ideas; we must all listen to one another. No one is excluded; we are all called to participate. No one possesses the whole truth; we must all humbly seek it and seek it together." Pope Leo XIV www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Br Dr Guy Consolmagno, SJ, former head of the Vatican observatory youtu.be/LE_NFQzxUrE?...

“A Church that sets no limits to love, that knows no enemies to fight but only men and women to love, is the Church that the world needs today.” Pope Leo XIV, Dilexit Te www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

🧪 Job Alert - RIT will be posting a new Tenure-Track faculty position in Neuroscience. Looking for someone with neurobiology experience doing research with visual and/or computational neuroscience. Any amazing neuroscientists out there? Job posting coming soon... www.rit.edu/study/neuros...

“... for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” (G. Eliot) www.imdb.com/title/tt5827...

RIP Patricia Routledge one of the best ever to do it.

Where do you stand? "I think we consist of more than mere atoms crashing into each other, and that we are, instead, beings of vast potential, placed on this earth for a reason - to magnify, as best we can, that which is beautiful and true." ...

Velcrow Birds of a feather stick together. www.worldofmoose.com/products/vel...

When Purple Perceived Only at Fixation: A Fixation and Distance-Dependent Color Illusion https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11582

Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners https://video-zero-shot.github.io/

"We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates... Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty." -Tanizaki Junichiro "In Praise of Shadows"（陰礼讃）